And your problem with that is?
I don't remember ever denying the fact.
It's exactly because he was only a kid. He may have knew he was doing something wrong, but there's a reason we don't allow children to vote, or drive cars, or drink alcohol or any number of other things. It's because we don't believe kids understand the full consequences of their actions. That's exactly what makes them kids.
Do you realise what you're saying? That you'd be perfectly happy to have had a ten year old child killed. That's what you're saying. And you think calling me a liberal is insulting...
If Venables and Thompson had been executed, it would have made us no better than them. We'd all have been child killers by association.